It seems that the gaming business for the Japanese Corporation Sony has become one of the most lucrative if not the most profitable. Indeed, to date the Corporation has sold more than 67.5 million game consoles PlayStation 4. This is a truly great result in the current generation of gaming consoles considering that the main competitor in the face of Microsoft with their Xbox One is lagging far behind the Japanese. Official Sony financial report, published yesterday, confirms that video games today lies the future of the company.
Financial report for the second quarter of 2017 (the period between July 1 and September 30) demonstrates the fact that the gaming division of Sony Interactive Entertainment today profitable as ever. For the current fiscal year, Sony managed to implement a 4.2 million PlayStation 4 consoles. Only in the last quarter in stores around the world were shipped 3.3 million consoles. Overall, to date, has sold more than 67.5 million boxes of popular consoles. Yesterday’s conference in the framework of the exhibition Paris Game Week have only strengthened the position of Sony as the leader of the console industry, because the Japanese just announced some obscene amount of new great games.
During the current financial year, Sony plans to sell from 18 million to 19 million PS4 that by March 2018, will allow to reach 79 million consoles sold. Ahead of the festive period, when during the “black Friday” and Christmas sales of electronics to skyrocket. That’s why virtually no doubt that the Japanese will really be able to achieve your goals. Speaking of dry figures, the company has a 35.4% increase in PS4 sales compared to last year. The only division of Sony that still works in the negative, remains the mobile segment. In this respect, the Japanese still has room to grow.
Sony managed to sell 67.5 million PlayStation 4 consoles
Sergey Grey